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Whether in their room, or in their mail boxes, various people connected with the games are receiving Secret Santa information.

Even if they didn't sign up for it.

For those given Tributes, a small summary of their deaths in included, with a neatly written note:

Be sure to help out Tribute celebrate the holiday season by honoring their courageous sacrifices!

For those who do not have a Tribute, they are given a simple list of what the Capitol believe someone in their demographic would enjoy. As if a Tribute could not figure out that a young, Capitol woman might enjoy "Perfume, Bubbble bath, Chocolates."

The note concludes by letting the gift givers know that gifts will be traded on December 22rd.

((OOC-If you would like to thread out some sort of reaction, feel free here. Secret Santas will be posted to the original OOC post here in the next few minutes. Feel free to leave questions in your replies, and find your secret santa's information on that post.))

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She frowned and nodded, "Okay that could be being fun. But you could be making cookies any time, no just at Christmas."

"Yeah, we could but Mom was usually too busy. Sometimes we used to make some for Easter."

"What do Easter be being?" As usual once she had gotten an answer she had two more questions to ask.

"It's a holiday in the spring." Kevin could understand the questions. He had enough of them and half the time didn't even know how to ask them.

"Another holiday?" She nodded, "What do you be doing for that?" She needed to be prepared.

He really had to think about that one. Yvette hadn't even bothered to decorate for Easter. "Small gifts. Usually in a basket. Candy. Sometimes cookies. And Easter egg hunts."

"So a lot of these festivals do be being about gifts." She wrinkled her nose, "Why do you be hunting eggs? Surely they do just be where the chickens are."

"Yeah, I guess." He laughed. "Not real eggs. Fake ones with candy or money inside. The grown ups hide them."

"Fake eggs? What do candy be being? Why do they be hiding them?" This made less and less sense by the minute.

"Candy is... Remember Valentine's Day? When that guy sent the food and stuff?"

Pruna wrinkled her nose, she wasn't sure when valentine's day had been and wasn't sure what Kevin was talking about, she shook her head.

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"With the toy bears and all the heart stuff?"

"Bears?" And hearts? Pruna shook her head, she would have thought she would have noticed if there were bears and hearts in the capitol. "Did they be being bear hearts or people hearts?"

He laughed a little and shook his head. "Neither. They were heart shapes."

"Heart shapes?" Why would someone make a heart shape? What did it mean? Life maybe? Or a threat? "Hearts do be being hard to draw, you do be having to be remembering where the tubes go, did there no be being an easier shape, and what do it be having to be doing with bears?"

"They... don't really look like real hearts. There's no tubes. And the bears were holding them."

"The bears were holding the hearts? Did it be being a threat?" She wrinkled her nose.

"No, it's... The bears are just 'cause people like them. The hearts are supposed to mean love." He shrugged. It was kind of stupid.

"That do be being stupid, how do hearts be meaning love?" And bears? She sighed, "Holidays do be being weird here."

He shrugged. "I don't know. They just do."

He looked at her closely. "Well, what holidays do you have where you're from?"

"Well some people do be celebrating the longest night, and the longest day. They do be being in the Winter and the Summer, I do be thinking it do almost be being the longest night now." She shrugged, "I did no never be celebrating them though."

"Why did they celebrate them? The longest night sounds..." He shrugged. Sad seemed too mild but he didn't have a better word.

"Well the longest day was because the light gods had triumphed, and the longest night do be waiting for the day to dawn again." She told him, wrinkling her nose, "It do be being stupid."

"Yeah." He shrugged. "But holidays are fun even if they're stupid."

"I did be telling you, I did no be every celebrating them, me and my sister did be having to be staying in our room." She frowned, "So this will be being my first one."